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Manage Active Directory in Windows Server 2022

In this lab, you’ll practice Active Directory administration. When you’re finished with this lab, you’ll have a functional Active Directory infrastructure.

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(152 reviews)
Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 10m
Published
Clock icon Jul 30, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Create Users, Groups, and OUs in Active Directory

    To start this lab, you will create a new Organizational Unit (OU) in the existing Active Directory domain. You will then create a new group and user inside this OU, and add the user to the group. Finally, you will assign this group to a file share to grant permissions.

  3. Challenge

    Join a New Server to the Active Directory Domain

    You will prepare a new server to join an existing Active Directory domain, join the server to the domain, and verify that the computer object appears in Active Directory Users and Computers.

  4. Challenge

    Create a GPO and Link it to an OU

    To finish up the lab, you will create a new Group Policy Object in Active Directory and link it to an Organizational Unit.

  5. Challenge

    The Final Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

Greg is a networking professional, proficient in voice, data, and Windows networking.

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